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TYLER, MOSES COIT (1835—1900)

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TYLER, See also:MOSES COIT (1835—1900) , See also:American author, was See also:born in See also:Griswold, See also:Connecticut, on the 2nd of See also:August 1835. At an See also:early See also:age he removed with his parents to See also:Detroit, See also:Michigan. He entered the university of Michigan in 18J3, but in the next See also:year went to Yale See also:College, from which he graduated A.B. in 1857, and received the degree of A.M. in 1863. He studied for the Congregational See also:ministry at the Yale Divinity School (1857—1858) and at the See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary (1858—18J9), and held a pastorate at See also:Owego, New See also:York, in 1859—186o and at See also:Poughkeepsie in 1860—1862. Owing to See also:ill-See also:health, however, and a See also:change in his theological beliefs, he See also:left the ministry. He became interested in See also:physical training, and for some See also:time (partly in See also:England) wrote and lectured on the subject, besides other journalistic See also:work. He became See also:professor of See also:English See also:language and literature in the university of Michigan in 1867, and held that position until 1881, except in 1873-1874 when he was See also:literary editor of the See also:Christian See also:Union; from 1881 until his See also:death on the 28th of See also:December 'goo at See also:Ithaca, New York, he was professor of American See also:history at Cornell University. In 1881 he was ordained See also:deacon in the See also:Protestant Episcopal See also:Church and in 1883 See also:priest, but he never undertook parochial work. Most important amonghis See also:works are his valuable and See also:original History of American Literature during the Colonial Time, 1607—1765 (2 vols., 1878; revised in 1897), and Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763—1783 (2 vols., 1897). Supplementary to these two is his Three Men of Letters (1895), containing See also:biographical and See also:critical chapters on See also:George See also:Berkeley, See also:Timothy See also:Dwight and See also:Joel See also:Barlow. In addition he published The Brawnville Papers (1869), a See also:series of essays on physical culture; a revision of See also:Henry See also:Morley's See also:Manual of English Literature (1879); In Memoriam: See also:Edgar Kelsey Apgar (1886), privately printed; See also:Patrick Henry (1887), an excellent See also:biography, in the " American Statesmen" series; and Glimpses of England; Social, See also:Political, Literary (1898), a selection from his sketches written while abroad. See " Moses Coit Tyler," by Professor See also:William P.

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Trent, in The See also:Forum (Aug. 1901), and an See also:article by Professor George L. See also:Burr, in the See also:Annual See also:Report of the American See also:Historical Association for 1901 (vol. i.).

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